Trivia

Acted in both The Avengers and The New Avengers.

He served in the Royal Navy as a lieutenant and meteorologist, and was stationed for several years in Kirkwall in the Orkney Islands where he was a founder member of the Kirkwall Arts Club.

He was the brother of Thomas Hewlett, Baron Hewlett.

His last TV appearance was in The Upper Hand in 1995.

Hewlett was educated at Clifton College in Bristol followed by St John's College, Cambridge, where he studied geography and meteorology and was part of the Footlights Revue, but volunteered for the RNVR early in World War II.

Following his demob, rather than return to Cambridge University, Hewlett trained at RADA and gained his first professional acting job in repertory theatre at the Oxford Playhouse where he suggested the management should cast Ronnie Barker in his first, small, role.

He rose to the rank of lieutenant and was subsequently posted to Singapore, in charge of Japanese POWs and as entertainment officer.

Hewlett gained his most prominent role in the Croft and Perry sitcom It Ain't Half Hot Mum (1974-81) as Colonel Charles Reynolds.

Donald Hewlett was an English actor who was best known for his sitcom roles as Colonel Charles Reynolds in It Ain't Half Hot Mum and Lord Meldrum in You Rang, M'Lord?, both written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft.

His father Thomas Hewlett was Conservative MP for Manchester Exchange from 1940 to 1945 and owned the Anchor Chemical Company based in Clayton, Manchester (now a subsidiary of Air Products and Chemicals).